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| Table of Contents | |
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| An Introduction to Inquiry | |
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| Here We Go! Get Ready to Find out Why You Should Learn About Research Methods | |
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| From the Sociological Imagination | |
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| The Reality of Everyday Life | |
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| Research and Theory: They Go Hand in Hand | |
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| School Tracking and Student Violence | |
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| Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973+1992: A Research Note | |
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| Ethics: You Must Have Ethics in Life and Especially In Research | |
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| Taking Names: The Ethics of Indirect Recruitment in Research on Sexual Networks | |
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| The Ethics of Conducting Social-Science Research on the Internet | |
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| Code of Ethics, American Sociological Association | |
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| The Structuring of Inquiry | |
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| Research Design: Now it's Time to Plan | |
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| Public Assistance Receipt Among Immigrants and Natives:How the Unit of Analysis Affects Research Findings | |
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| Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage | |
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| Conceptualization and Operationalization: We Have to Explain What We are Studying | |
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| An epidemiological survey on the presence of toxic chemicals in soaps and cosmetics used by adolescent female students from a Nigerian University, Obuekwe | |
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| Conceptualization of Terrorism | |
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| Indexes and Scales: Now we get to measure it all! | |
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| A study of differences in business ethical values in Mainland China, the U.S. and Jamaica | |
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| The Reverse Social Distance Scale | |
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| Sampling Made Easy | |
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| Sex in America | |
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| The Eurowinter project: the use of market/social research methods in an international scientific study | |
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| Modes of Observations | |
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| Experimental and Survey Research: Putting it all Together | |
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| Prepaid monetary incentives and data quality in face-to-face interviews: data from the 1996 survey of income and program participation incentive experiment | |
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| Sex in America-The Sex Survey | |
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| The Internet and Opinion Measurement: Surveying Marginalized Populations | |
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| Field Research and Unobtrusive Measures: Fun in the Field | |
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| Comparisons between Thai adolescent voices and Thai adolescent health literature, Vipavee Thongpriwan | |
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| Amateur Stripping and Gaming Encounters: Fun in Gamesor Gaming as Fun? | |
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| Thinking Through the Heart | |
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| Existing Data and Evaluation Research: Let's find out what works | |
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| What Sociologists Do and Where They Do It-The NSF Survey on Sociologist's Work Activities and Workplaces | |
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| Professors Who Make the Grade (Factors That Affect Students' Grades. of Professors) | |
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| Appendix: Writing and Reading a Research Paper | |
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| Construction of Masculinity: A Look into the Lives of Heterosexual Male Transvestites | |
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| Glossary | |